Well no doubt about it, the improvement in the drugs that were available for anesthetizing animals intermuscularly. In other words, the dart gun, and being able to deliver a medication to an animal from a distance, and hitting the muscle. You know, because prior to that, there were other anesthetics,… Read More
Any predictions about the future of US and maybe world zoos, either good or bad?… Read More
I mean, I learned from the various directors that I served under, I learned from the keepers all the time, you know?… Read More
The animal management of what you could get, you know, an animal to do or not do as far as, you know, I was very dependent upon the keepers to know, you know, what’s going on and how they’re doing. But you know, some of it was a physical restraint,… Read More
What was your most difficult time at the zoo, what lessons were learned?… Read More
I don’t know if there’s anything that, you know, was high on my list to accomplish that I didn’t get done. You know, we continued to always improve our educational programs, which were high on the list. You asked about graphics before. I said, “You know, a lot of people… Read More
Well, I learned from everybody. Read More
Some of the questions now are, just what’s your opinion about these things?… Read More
During the time you were at St. Louis, what had you hoped to accomplish but were a unable to finish?… Read More
And immediately we sent off hay samples, our supplement, our grain, we sent that off to both the university and to Ralston Purina, who helped us all the time. We sent it off, you know, to be evaluated, to see what’s there. Well it didn’t take them long, and it… Read More
And I said, “Don’t feed any of the hay in that barn to any of the animals in the zoo.” Now only the stone sheep were dying but, “Don’t feed it to anything anymore.” So what about our other?… Read More
We changed it immediately, and of course it cleared it up. A little detective work. Read More
Did they you know, what about the feed?… Read More
You know, did we get our feed from a different supplier?” You know, “No, nobody sprayed anything. Nobody changed any of the stuff they normally clean.” I said, “Well, we gotta stop whatever we’re feeding them right now.” And you know, I thought it must be in the hay, because… Read More
Did they spray something different?… Read More
Did they, you know, did they use a different cleaner in there?… Read More
And they all looked, I mean, you examine them, what’s going on?… Read More
Why isn’t it doing this or that?” But one of the things that really came home was, we had these stone sheep and there was a herd, probably about 10 or 12 of them, and one died. They all looked perfectly normal, and it was just dead in the cage. Read More
And you know, I got involved with our veterinary staff. “What, I mean, this can’t be something infectious. I mean, it just doesn’t go that fast. It has to be something environmental. Read More
“What’s wrong with this animal?” I mean usually, you know, “Why isn’t it, what’s wrong?… Read More